And Then You're Dead

Why it surfaced

The site grounds its essays in concrete claims: more than 70% of debt-collection lawsuits end in default judgment, while a proposed overtime rule would have covered 4 million additional workers before being struck down. Its bleakly memorable game, “A Life,” promises one path and one ending drawn from the same numbers.

A journal about life, debt, work, and the mathematics of systems people rarely choose, paired with a life-path game.